Big Fat Book of the .45 ACP

by Patrick Sweeney

Overview

Everything you've ever wanted to know about America's favorite handgun cartridge!

Designed nearly a century ago, the .45 ACP cartridge has earned a well-deserved reputation as a superbly accurate, slap-em-down handgun cartridge. An honored veteran of two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and lesser conflicts across the globe, the .45 ACP is now more popular than ever for competition shooting, law enforcement and self-defense. Now, just in time for the .45 ACPs 100th anniversary, handgun expert Pat Sweeney gives us the inside scoop on America's favorite big-bore cartridge. If you own a handgun or carbine chambered for the big .45, or if you're considering buying on, you'll find everything you need in the Gun Digest Big Fat Book of the .45 ACP.

It's all here:

• The origins of the .45 ACP and the guns that use it
• Reloading tips, tricks and techniques
• The inside story of .45 ACP cases, bullets, primers and powder
• And so much more!

It's the best one-volume guide to the most popular big-bore handgun cartridge of all time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440226328
Publisher:	F+W Media
Publication date:	10/20/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	950,023
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Patrick Sweeney is a certified master gunsmith, film consultant, certified armorer instructor for police departments nationwide, author of many of Gun Digest Books' best-selling titles, and Handguns Editor for America's largest general-circulation shooting magazine, Guns&Ammo.